Earth Notes: General Bibliography (NESO2024clean)

• [NESO2024clean] Clean Power 2030: Advice on achieving clean power for Great Britain by 2030 (accessed 2024-11-08), NESO (GB National Energy System Operator), Gallows Hill, Warwick, CV34 6DA, UK, 2024-11-05, also at (report) (BibTeX).
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  Clean power is a huge challenge but is achievable for Great Britain by 2030. Clean power will require doing things differently. It will only be achieved with bold action and sustained momentum, across every area and every step of the way between now and 2030. Achieving clean power by 2030 will put Great Britain in a strong position.
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  [Quote: "HM Government has an ambition for Great Britain to be supplied with clean power by 2030. National Energy System Operator (NESO) was formally commissioned by the Secretary of State and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to provide independent advice on the pathway towards the 2030 ambition. We developed a range of pathways, with expert analysis of the location and type of new investment and infrastructure needed to deliver it. Clean power by 2030 is a huge challenge that will only be met by doing things differently, by prioritising pace over perfection, and by working together across the industry towards a shared vision. Our engagement went beyond the energy sector, ensuring we took a whole system view" (from Web landing page). Quote: "Offshore wind must be the bedrock of that system, providing over half of Great Britain's generation, with onshore wind and solar providing another 29%." Quote: "Flexibility is vital in a system with more variable renewables. There are large opportunities to increase flexibility in both demand and supply, across residential and commercial applications, and in industry. However, flexibility is not currently valued in full and faces multiple barriers." Quote: "Our clean power pathways see Great Britain become a net exporter of power and reduce the share of unabated gas generation to below 5%." Quote: "Our clean power pathways see a four-to-fivefold increase in demand flexibility (excluding storage heaters), an increase in grid connected battery storage from 5 GW to over 22 GW, more pumped storage and major expansions in onshore wind (from 14 GW to 27 GW) and solar (from 15 GW to 47 GW) along with nuclear plant life extensions. Our work identifies two primary clean power pathways. In addition to the elements outlined above, one pathway successfully builds 50 GW of offshore wind by 2030, but no new dispatchable power from hydrogen or gas with CCS. The other pathway delivers new dispatchable plants (totalling 2.7 GW) and 43 GW offshore wind." Quote: "We describe clean power as at least as much power being generated from clean sources as Great Britain consumes across the year, and when unabated gas generation makes up less than 5% of Great Britain's generation in a typical weather year." Quote: "Under this description, our analysis shows grid carbon intensity drops below 20 gCO2/kwh (excluding BECCS)." Quote: "We assume projects with regulatory approval deliver by 2030 in line with their regulatory delivery dates, increasing capacity from 8 GW in 2023 to 12 GW in 2030." Quote: "Delivery of a clean power system in 2030 will require an installed generation and storage capacity of around 210-220 GW..." Quote: "Our clean power pathways will require demand side flexibility at peak to grow by 4 - 5 times current levels."]